Ask Unkle Hadron

[tdr1nka]

Why build a collider in the first place?
Couldn't you attract these particles with a bosun's whistle?

As far as I know antireds are either Man city or Tottenham supporters.

 

[marinyork]

How I ever managed to get a physics "A" level is now completely beyond me...

If you did QCD at A level I will certainly admit that standards have declined! I did particle physics option at A-level which was only picked as I was the only one mad enough to want to do the cosmology option.

I blame the University of Gottingen, it's mostly their fault really...

 

[marinyork]

Words and words and words and words.....

It's all frigging maths actually that the physicists have pinched.

 

[tdr1nka]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there more likelihood of the
end of the world when they actually collide particles rather than sending the beams around the accelerator clockwise and anti clockwise to see if it all works?

 

[mondobongo]

Why do pears never ripen, they go from tough and crunchy to rotten in the blink of an eye.

 

[marinyork]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there more likelihood of the
end of the world when they actually collide particles rather than sending the beams around the accelerator clockwise and anti clockwise to see if it all works?

It is a point that people seem to have missed, you don't miss a trick tdr1nka .

There is a lot more chance of the end of the world happening next month but it's still extremely unlikely. We'd need an absolutely massive LHC to stand any chance of making a black hole under currently verified science. The only real possibility of making one is if the "shower head" theories of gravity are true. Even if one was made, although it would "light up like a christmas tree" as one scientist put it, it wouldn't cause any harm.

 

[tdr1nka]

My eldest daughter rang me late last night fearing the end of the world, I told her not to be silly, that would be next month!

 

[Fnaar]

dis Ist Der Tea Thread, Nicht War?

 

[Arch]

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there more likelihood of the
end of the world when they actually collide particles rather than sending the beams around the accelerator clockwise and anti clockwise to see if it all works?

That only occured to me mid morning...

Still, they have apparently got the beam going both ways now, so I guess the colliding starts soon!

 

[red_tom]

From the ever great xkcd

 

[graham56]

As the "Big Bang" took place in a vacuum, and as we were taught in physics class sound can`t travel in a vacuum, how do we know it made a "bang"?
And as it was sub atomic how is it big?

 

[wafflycat]

As the "Big Bang" took place in a vacuum, and as we were taught in physics class sound can`t travel in a vacuum, how do we know it made a "bang"?

Fool. Everyone knows the answer to that one. Vulcans hear stuff in vacuums, as they have a special ear that allows them to hear in a vacumm. It's not their left one or their right one, it's their one to hear in space, their final front ear.

 

[marinyork]

As the "Big Bang" took place in a vacuum, and as we were taught in physics class sound can`t travel in a vacuum, how do we know it made a "bang"?
And as it was sub atomic how is it big?

Fred Hoyle coined it as a term of abuse for Gamow's idea. The two didn't get on particularly well. A similar thing happened with the Higgs, it got named the God Particle as Lederman who used to run the Tevatron (which was hoped might find the Higgs) named it the Goddamn Particle in frustration and someone edited it.

 

[Carwash]

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